[Ohiogift] Fwd: Correction

[Will Fitzhugh]

Jay Mathews set me straight. I had not realized the the EdWeek
compared AP failures to the total number of HS seniors.

So the AP failure rate is only 50%. Is that OK?
The College Board still takes in the money...


Will Fitzhugh


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From: "Mathews, Jay" <Jay.Mathews at washpost.com>
Date: May 11, 2013 8:50:24 PM EDT
To: Will Fitzhugh <fitzhugh at tcr.org>
Subject: RE: AP Exam Results

This is a rare instance when you misinterpreted a statistic, Will. The failure rate on AP exams these days is about 50 percent, not 80 percent. The 21 percent figure is the equity and excellence rate, which is the percentage of ALL seniors, including those who never took AP, who had at least one passing grade on an AP test some time in high school. ---jay


From: Will Fitzhugh [fitzhugh at tcr.org]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 7:44 AM
To: Catherine Gewertz
Subject: AP Exam Results


Education Week
May 8, 2013, p. 11
"Benefits of AP Program Questioned by Researcher" (excerpt)


“...Last year, nearly one in five high school graduates scored a 3 or higher (out of a possible 5) on an AP exam. That is up from 18.1 percent who passed in 2011 and 11.6 percent among the class of 2002. There were 954,070 public school students who took at least one AP exam last year, or 32.4 percent of 2012 graduates, up from 30.2 percent the year before and 18 percent of graduates in 2002, according to the most recent AP report from the College Board...”


[A score of 3 is passing on an AP exam. So, more than 80 percent of the students who took AP classes, with an AP curriculum, and AP-trained teachers, failed the exam in 2012, and, while that is an improvement over the 88.4% who failed eleven years ago in 2002, it is barely regarded as news...Oh, and all 954,070 students no doubt paid for the exam.]



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